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Using toolbars to format a document

ClassNotes Team 2 MIN READUPDATED 13 JUN 2026

Week: Three

Topic: Using toolbars to format a document

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to;

1. Apply bold, underline and italics to texts

2. Format font types, sizes and colour.

3. Justify text position

4. Apply undo and Redo

Reference material: Learn Africa Basic Agricultural Science UBE edition for primary school pupils 6

Content:

Boldening, Italicising and Underlining

To bolden, italicise or underline a letter, word or sentence:

1 Type the sentence

2 Highlight the sentence

3 Locate the letters B, I and U on the toolbar

4 Clicking B boldens, clicking I changes to italics, while clicking U underlines.

Instead of using the mouse, certain keys on the keyboard could be used after selecting the words.

These are:

1 To change to bold

Ctrl + B

2 To change to italics

Ctrl + I

3 To underline

Ctrl + U

Using toolbars to format a document

Changing font types

There are many font types, also known as typefaces. While using the MS-Word, the computer user may change from one font to another. To do this:

1 Select the words.

2 Click on the font type menu, and a list of font types is shown.

3 Click on the font type of your choice.

Changing case

Changing case means changing from a capital letter to a small letter or from a small letter to a capital letter. A capital letter is in upper case while a small letter is in lower case. To change case:

1 Select the letter or word.

2 Click Format on the menu bar, and a list of options appears.

3 Click Change case.

4 Click upper case or lower case, depending on the case you want

Evaluation:

1 Type, ‘I have a nice computer at home.’

2 Let ‘nice’ be in italics.

3 Let ‘computer’ be bold.

4 Let ‘home’ be underlined.